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Afghanistan: Taliban say no more evacuations until life improves for Afghans abroad
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KABUL, 28 February 2022, (TON): Spokesman said “the Taliban will not allow any more Afghans to be evacuated until the situation improves abroad for those who have already left.”
Families wanting to leave in future would also need a good excuse for doing so, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told a news conference, adding a promise to allow anyone to go abroad was not continuous.
More than 120,000 Afghans and dual nationals were evacuated up to August 31 when the last US-led troops withdrew, two weeks after the hardline Islamists seized Kabul.
Hundreds more were allowed to leave on flights after that, but the last official evacuation by air was on December 1.
Mujahid said the Taliban had received reports of thousands of Afghans "living in very bad conditions" in Qatar and Turkey.
He said "the government has the responsibility to protect the people so this will be stopped until we get the assurance that their lives will not be endangered.”
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